{"id":143235,"date":"2025-09-09T04:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T04:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/143235\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T04:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T04:41:09","slug":"sam-altman-people-are-starting-to-talk-like-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/143235\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman: People Are Starting to Talk Like AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman<\/a> said on Monday that people may have picked up AI’s quirks and are starting to sound like large language models on social media.<\/p>\n

Altman wrote in a post on X that he had the “strangest experience” looking at the flurry of online forum posts about Codex, OpenAI’s new agent tool<\/a> for developers.<\/p>\n

“I assume it’s all fake\/bots, even though in this case, I know codex growth is really strong and the trend here is real,” Altman said on X.<\/p>\n

Representatives for Altman at OpenAI did not respond to requests for comment from Business Insider.<\/p>\n

Altman posited a few reasons for the surge in such content on social media. He said similarities in writing style could be cropping up because “real people have picked up quirks of LLM-speak.” Altman added that the “Extremely Online crowd drifts together in very correlated ways.”<\/p>\n

Another reason suggested by Altman was that the nature of the hype cycle around AI tools “has a very ‘it’s so over\/we’re so back’ extremism.” The rise of such content could be driven by “optimization pressure from social platforms on juicing engagement and the related way that creator monetization works,” he continued.<\/p>\n

“But the net effect is somehow AI twitter\/AI reddit feels very fake in a way it really didn’t a year or two ago,” Altman wrote.<\/p>\n

Altman made a similar observation in an X post he published last week.<\/p>\n

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“I never took the dead internet theory that seriously but it seems like there are really a lot of LLM-run twitter accounts now,” Altman wrote in a post on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Paul Graham<\/a>, the cofounder of startup incubator Y Combinator, responded to Altman’s post, saying that he noticed the same trend when he used X.<\/p>\n

Graham said AI-generated content wasn’t just coming from “fake accounts run by groups and countries that want to influence public opinion,” it was also being published by “a lot of individual would-be influencers.”<\/p>\n

Altman and Graham aren’t the only ones sensing a rise in “AI slop,” low-quality content made with little effort using AI, on the internet.<\/p>\n

Substack CEO Chris Best<\/a> said in an episode of “The a16z Podcast,” which aired last week, that “sophisticated AI goon bots” will saturate the media landscape with engagement bait.<\/p>\n

“We’re going to live in a world where you could have a bunch of AI slop that keeps dumb people clicking,” Best said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Monday that people may have picked up AI’s quirks and are starting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-143235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}